The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-19
Earn, md Garden y Otes.

Repeated hoeing hastens tho Growth
of sweet corn, cabbage and cauIi1ower.
Bees give a valuable product and cost
little for keeping beyond providing
shelter.
Inconvenience is often caused by losing
the names OF fruit trees in young
orchards. A good zinc label is desirable.
An advocate of free access to salt for
sheep says they will not overeat, as
when sailed only occasionally but
freely.
NJ. / D. R4mington claims there is
no animal kept on the farm that will
begin to pay as much money as breed
ing mare.
A woman who has had success in rails
ing turkeys says it is always best to keep
young turkeys off the grass when the
dew is on it.
Allowing fruit trees to overbear per-
manently Injuries them by the load, af~
fects the quality of the fruit and lessons
the fruit product.
Gardeners say that in the larger vines
of peas there is better succession Of
bloom, giving longer picking from the
same seeding than the dwarf peas
afford.
The best way to set hen is to do
it at night. If she is to be moved to
some other location carry her on the
nest as she will be better reconciled to
the change.
1t is claimed that more damage is done
by the gentle bulls than by those that
| are vicious and the advice is to watch
them, as the gentlest of bulls is q treach-
erous anima,.
Western farmers say that if they ap-
plv petroleum to their seed corn it pre-
vents its disturbance by birds and squir-
rels and does not injure the corn or re-
tard its germination.
When a contagious disease breaks out
in a flock of fowls, it is better to destroy
them all rather than have the disease
get rooted" on the farm, as the germs
may remain for years.
White clover is the best grass that
can be grown for sheep. Sheep are not
partial to tall grass, and the white clover
will always be selected by them in
/ DreferenCe to other kinds,
Potatoes with deep eyes are objec-
tionabe. \ smooth, even surface ena-
bles the housewife to pare the potatoes
with little waste, and if combined with
elongated shape to bake them unpeeled.
Teach young calf to be led by
rope, and if it is to be bred for a COW the
accomplishment will greatly increase its
value. The sooner this docility is
learned the better for the animal and its
owner.
Grain fed to cows should be properly
mingled with cut and moistened fodder,
so that it may be digcsted with as little
strain to the system of the animal as
pasture grass, and wear her out no
faster.
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man says: ''corn will endure, when
yoang, a pretty hard frost without in
jury-a harder frost than many farmers
imagine" FIR that reason he advocates
early planting.
It has been asccrtained that the we'll
known 'Hady-Lug" with red spot on
/ each wing covcr) preys upon rose lie
/ and cuinch-bugs Mr. Hatch Of Suisun,
I Ca.., offered an ounce OF gold tor an
ounce Of Iady-bugs, and obtained them.
/ There are few farms in the United
! States which would not be better for
having some sheep grazing on them.
/ They eat the rclus' feed and they ma
uure the grounj. Sac manure is fav-
oraa.e to the growth of heavy wheat
aud corn.
1t is suggested that the first litter of
young SOW will never be 4 large one.
They should be taken of when SIX
weeks old aud fed by themselves, though
one or two of the workings may be left
two weeks longer. With this help the
litter will make more even lot OF
shoats.
Geese do not need great deal of
water, and often do well with only a
trough to bathc in, but the water should
be pure aad clean all the time, and they
need good pasturage. A shady lane or
an orchard is excellent for them. Dis
a:,,cs are few among geese and they
sometimes live one hundred years.
The largest yearly record for any Jcr-
sey COW for one year is recorded to the
credit Of Landseer's Fancy, $50 pounds
IA 81 ounces. The second largest yearly
rccorl IS that of Canada's great COW,
Mary Anne, of st. Lambert, SCI pOun Is
IT 81 ounces in eleven months and five
days The Holstcins have the largest
7 milk record.
Beecher's Prompt Approval.
II. W. Ripley of Portland, Me, who
/ Inns missed fOrtv-Dinp summers i, tn.